McDonald's Begins to See
Payoff From Efforts in China

SHANGHAI -- McDonald's Corp. executives, battling to revive their China business, say they have seen a significant increase in sales and profits in the world's most populous country.

The Oak Park, Illinois, restaurant chain, which generally doesn't disclose sales or profit figures for individual overseas markets, said sales in China in the first nine months of this year rose 10.7%, and operating profit grew 58%, compared with the same...